Chaotic Restoration - Characters! Project Complete!

 To the end - characters. Ages of these range between my having had them since the mid 90s through to converting one last year.

V nice to just sit and paint out 4 character models of an evening though. Especially, as being in mainly red armour, the undercoat does most of the work!

First up - ye olde Warhammer Quest Chaos Warrior of Massive Axe.

Not a jot of paint for 25 years. 

Ye Obligatory Classic Realm of Chaos Chap. 

Ebay job, from around 2008ish. Back when such could be bought for 99p free post and there was none of this OOP OLDHAMMER RARE fishing happening. Not painting until now, although I suspect he'd been stripped in the past before I purchased.

Ye Properly Used And Loved Model.

This fellow we've seen before, so won't linger.

Ye New Boy

Plastic! Knocked this up as a conversion last summer in a fit of NON KHORNE WEAKNESS, before seeing the error of my ways and embarking on this entire army restore as penance. The idea of a chaos champion of another god crossing the floor to join Khorne is a nice one though, so his background is sorted.

Group shot. Need to think of names for three of them, but time being what it is............

AND WITH THAT..............project complete! I might tidy up my demons at some point as well, but I think thats enough WFB painting for now. 

Next step? FIGHT THEM AGAINST SOMETHING.

Chaotic Restoration - Chariots

 Chariots and what was a Warshrine at the time of building, but will just be a chariot now (6th FTW!)

Enjoyed these, and knocked them out over the course of two evenings........so an hour each, then. 

God knows what I was thinking with the placement of the drivers back in the day, but thats how they were pinned and thats how they remain! Photos don't show it, but Mnsr Halberd is staring straight into the back of Mnsr Whip

Warshrine was an odd one - I woke up one morning with a flash of inspiration, got set to building and within an hour or so, I ended up with a carriage of SKULLS AND HEADS. Its been a bit battered and broken campaigned since then, never saw table use and never got any paint, so its nice to finally see it in a finished state.

Chaotic Restoration - Chaos Warriors

 Not so much a restoration, these, as they are new. I used to have loads of them in the past, but they all got binned. A chaos army needs chaos warriors, however, so hand in pocket (again).

I really really REALLY did not enjoy painting these! I actually like painting and paint every day if I can, but these were just awful. Should have been very easy as pretty simple, but they were just dragging the paint off the brush and killing momentum every time I picked them up..........which is very unusual for me. NEVER AGAIN.

With that, heres the current standing of the force. 

HELLCANNON!

 Its a hellcannon! That beast of an artillery piece that caused much fun on the table, but I never seemed to see (nor own!) a painted one. Perhaps its just intimidating having that much metal sitting there? I had two of these at one point, as well, so no idea where the other one went.

Mandatory "before" shot:

Set about it with gusto and here we are, one chunky cannon that weighs more than my dog.

Not too bad to really do, once getting going. Using oil washes takes an awful lot of the work out of it and makes things nicely grubby and grimy.

Chaotic Restoration - Chaos Knights

 Next up in the restoration of my old chaos army...............the Knights.

Chaos knights, iconic really, aren't they? I certainly always took a unit when this was a regular table force, although being Khorne, they'd often gallop headlong into some absurd position to fight some chaff. Khorne cares not where the blood comes from.............even if its 10 skinks.

So, this is how they looked originally.

Not too shabby on a couple of them - that made a decent base coat, and the horses were in pretty good nick from when I last repainted them around 2008ish, looking at that snow basing. The brown bases? That'll be 1998ish.

Couple of things in here:

1. That metal horse in the middle and its rider. I never built nor assembled that, nor did Roger the Todger who I sourced the items from, Back In The Day. Had a good look at it, thought about what I could do to convert or paint, and decided "nope, this is a duff model and theres a reason its been sitting untouched by three owners for 23ish years". Into the grave he went.

2. The other bare metal and plastics had been stripped by me in the past, so were easy to work with and suss out what should go where and with what. However, I did some repositioning on the 5th edition Knights as, much like the plastic warriors from the time (long binned by me), their heads came out of their chests rather than proudly on their necks, held high and proud, so a minor piece of work to amend that.

3. Banners. I absolutely need to do banners this time around! The thinking used to be "I'll do the army, then do all the banners at the end", but how often did I complete an army? NEVER, thats when. Unlike now, but I did the banners at the same time.

So, after a pair of hours assembling and a couple of hours across two evenings work, here we go with the restored Knights.

Very happy, once again. This lot is going to ruin someones life/village/head/day!

Here they are with Arbaal leading the way...........

Coming along nicely. Next up..............some heavy artillery.

Chaotic Restoration - Arbaal

 Some time ago, I posted about retrieving my old chaos army from a friend who I had donated it to in the past, and subsequently was enough of a gentleman to return it to me.

https://themosquitoonthetenthfloor.blogspot.com/2021/05/chaotic-restoration.html

After a pause in this, I'm finally getting around to making these into the chaos army I always wanted, but wasn't really able to in the past for various reasons (laziness, generally)

First up - Arbaal. THE Khorne bad boy to end them all, Looking thus:

HARDMAN

My Arbaal, however was in a bit more of a sorry state:

I'd already stripped the paint of him around.......2010ish, I think? Around then was when I was more willing to get things stuck into the Dettol. The Hound came like that, and was a classic mid 90s style paint job, painted by someone else, but not too thickly. 

"Fine", thinks I, "can paint straight over the top of that, nay bother".

So, an evenings work later and Arbaal is now ready for his return to the tabletop:

Banner pole is long long gone, but thats no major loss. Obviously, if I had it, I'd be painting a suitable livery for him, but as theres no pole, theres no point and the model looks pretty good without it.

Very happy with this one, very happy indeed.

So, the Khorne army has its general! Now onto the next units that take my fancy.

IRON SCORN: 40K Iron Warriors Army

 Finished my Iron Warriors army for 40K, although I set these in a mid point between HH and 40K (35K?), where they aren't hugely overt on the chaotic elements, but theres some distinct chaos look in there.

Generally enjoyed painting and building these, although I took at least a year gap between the first batch (foot) and second batch (vehicles). Have to say, it was a real nostalgia hit building the plastic HH kit that is akin to the look of ye old RTB01 marines and weapons.

Still, very enioyable making a 40K army again and repurposing some old stuff I've had sitting around for (too) many years unused. Hopefully will give these a run out on the table in a couple of week against the hated Imperial Fists, which'll be my first 40K proper in a long time...........

Some of these have been put onto the blog before, but are here again as part of the main force.

Commanders

Arzachel Ferox, in both terminator and power armoured options

Heretek Adept Roedilus

Thousand Sons Sorcerer Edmvnd Khelle

Elites

Terminator Squad Abraxa

Veterans

Thousand Sons

Troops

Marine Squad 1

Marine Squad 2

Rhino Troop Carriers

Heavy Support

Land Raider "Severin"

Vindicator "Liberator"

Predator "Dorns Tears"

Full Army Shots